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NEW YORK (AP) — A rookie police officer will find out whether he will be spared prison time following his manslaughter conviction in the accidental shooting death of an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell. Peter Liang was fired from the police force shortly after the February jury verdict in the death of Akai Gurley. […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy who disappeared in San Diego 14 years ago has been arrested in North Carolina and faces a murder charge, officials say. Tieray D. Jones was arrested Monday by U.S. Marshals and Raleigh Police Department officers in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a small town about 50 […]
HOUSTON (AP) — As more than a foot of rain deluged the nation’s fourth-largest city, inundating homes, shutting down major highways and leaving at least four people dead, Houston’s mayor said there was no immediate solution. Heavy flooding has become nearly an annual rite of passage in the practically sea-level city, where experts have long […]
NEW YORK (AP) — From a car wash in Queens to a hockey arena in Buffalo, both parties’ presidential candidates spread out across New York Monday in a final quest for votes, a surreal scene for a state that hasn’t experienced contested White House primaries in decades. For Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, […]
A 911 caller won’t be charged for reporting a man waving a gun in a Ohio Wal-Mart store before police fatally shot the shopper, who’d picked up an air rifle from a shelf, a special prosecutor said Monday. The decision was made by Mark Piepmeier, the prosecutor who presented the shooting case to a grand […]
A day before the all-important Democratic primary in New York, Spike Lee has released a new celeb-packed ad for his candidate of choice and fellow Brooklynite, Sen. Bernie Sanders. Titled “Wake Up,” the ad borrows its title from the message literally yelled to the audience in Lee’s 1988 film School Daze. The clip, lasting just over […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the U.S. as an Iraqi refugee says he was unfairly removed from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month because a fellow passenger was alarmed by an innocent conversation he was having in Arabic. Southwest Airlines said in a […]
Over the weekend a shooting at Tuskegee University left two students shot. AL.com reports: The shooting occurred between 3:30 and 4 a.m. in the parking lot of a university residence hall, Tuskegee University released in a statement. The incident could have been the result of an active shooter on the campus, according to the university. […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a 4-year-old Philadelphia girl (all times local): 8:50 p.m. Philadelphia police have charged a man in the fatal shooting of a 4-year-old girl. Investigators say Maurice Phillips turned himself in Saturday night, and admitted he was responsible for the young girl’s death. Phillips, who is […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — More than 5,000 prospective students have mistakenly been notified by email that they’ve been accepted into an upstate New York university. University at Buffalo spokesman John DellaContrada says the mistaken email was sent Wednesday to students whose applications hadn’t been fully reviewed. He says the university sent a second email about […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tourists are spending more money on their trips to Sin City, according to a new report by the Las Vegas tourism board. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority issued its visitor profile study this month, which showed average spending in most expense categories increased in 2015, including lodging, food and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trust in the news media is being eroded by perceptions of inaccuracy and bias, fueled in part by Americans’ skepticism about what they read on social media. Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news industry about equal to Congress and well […]
